edbt-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at EDBT or should be routed to SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ICDE, the co-located ICDT theory venue, or a database journal, and when choosing the EDBT paper shape (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision) and the nearest submission cycle.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill edbt-topic-selection --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# EDBT Topic Selection Decide the venue and the paper shape before drafting. EDBT — the International Conference on **Extending Database Technology** — is the European database-systems flagship, held jointly with **ICDT** (its theory sibling) and published open access on OpenProceedings.org. Its reviewers read for a **contribution that extends real database technology**: systems, applied data management, and experiments-and-analysis work. A paper whose true center is a complexity result, a pure-ML model, or a US-flagship-scale systems marathon may be respected and then rerouted. ## The routing question that matters most EDBT overlaps heavily with SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE in scope and reviewer pool, so the decisive question is rarely "is this databases?" but **"which database community, publication model, and cycle fits this paper now?"** Two EDBT-specific pulls tilt the answer: - **The rolling cycle is often the nearest honest deadline.** EDBT's three cycles a year mean a ready paper rarely waits long; if SIGMOD/ICDE/PVLDB's next window is months out, the near EDBT cycle can be the rational choice for a finished contribution. - **Open access matters to some authors and funders.** Ope
- The routing question that matters most
- Sibling-venue routing table
- Contribution shapes EDBT rewards (and the paper shape they map to)
- The theory-vs-systems test (the EDBT/ICDT boundary)
- The scale-and-community test (EDBT vs. the US flagships)
- Cheap reconnaissance before committing
- Decision procedure
What does the edbt-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at EDBT or should be routed to SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ICDE, the co-located ICDT theory venue, or a database journal, and when choosing the EDBT paper shape (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision) and the nearest submission cycle.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill edbt-topic-selection --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.